can mac & windows users d/l from each other?

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Submitted by feldgrau on Sun, 01/01/2012 - 21:33
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I am a mac user but I've been holding on to my windows machine for the sole purpose of using soulseek because all the mac soulseek clients were near useless. Qt seems to be really promising but for some reason I get an error message when I try to browse my mac running Qt from my pc running 157. I tried running Qt on my windows unit but I can't browse other users at all, ditto for the mac (see other thread). I can chat with myself however, just not able to share files, is the file sharing portion of Qt cross-platform compatible?

Submitted by Nir on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 14:46.

To share files, go to the Options->File Sharing tab and use the Add Folder button. I really recommend using canyouseeme.org to verify that your Soulseek listening port is visible to the outside world. If it isn't, that should explain why you can't connect to nearly anyone.

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Submitted by feldgrau on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 20:18.

What a handy thing. Checked my port (2235) and it is closed, however I can't seem to change it in Soulseek, how does one configure their listening port?

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Submitted by feldgrau on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 20:24.

I found it.

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Submitted by feldgrau on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 22:43.

I tried at least 2 dozen ports and I still can't be seen. I started googling about listening ports and apparently I need a static IP if I share the wireless network with other users so I tried that and all that happened was I killed my internet for an hour til I figured out how to revert to my original wireless settings. (I guess I should have written them down before I changed them) There has to be an easier way?

Submitted by Nir on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 08:07.

Are you on a home connection? What kind of router are you using? If you're on a network you don't own, such as at work for example, you probably won't be able to automatically forward your listening port.

Submitted by Alpha on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 10:42.

Two users that are firewalled cannot establish a connection among themselves (unless they use a STUN proxy or something similar).

If you are on a home connection, i.e., if you have control over your firewall, you can add an exception/rule to allow traffic through Soulseek's port (you can choose the port).
You may need to create/enable that rule both on your software firewall that is running on your computer and on the hardware gateway router that connects your home to the Internet.

UPnP can sometimes help (and SoulseekQT uses it), but it depends on how permissive your default firewall setup is.